Dominic Winter’s latest catalogue for their Vintage & Modern Photography auction is now online. The auction takes place on Thursday 4th November and comprises 300 lots, following on from the first 100-lot session of Postcards, Documents, Autographs & Ephemera which start the sale.The Photography session begins with 19th-century photography and includes excellent examples of large salt prints and albumen prints by, among others, Francis Bedford, Bisson Freres, Francis Frith and Linnaeus Tripe. Good examples are to be found for less familiar names including Charles Brittan, G.B. Gething, Henry J. Malby, William Pumphrey and Marquis de Rostaing.Besides the individual 19th-century photographs and folders and albums there are daguerreotypes and plentiful lots of stereoviews, cartes de visite, magic lantern slides and glass plate negatives. A large Dutch archive of 19th and 20th-century photography has been broken down into 50 lots, themed by country and subject.From the 20th century, there are photographs by Cecil Beaton, Robert Doisneau, Olive Edis, Yousuf Karsh and Herbert Ponting, and press prints of many leading names taken from the archive of Colin Osman at Creative Camera.Among the most intriguing lots are a photograph attributed to Lady Hawarden, featuring two of her daughters, a group of glass plate negatives of a Japanese community in British Columbia, 1920s, showing body piercing, and two photographs from the Cottingley Fairies series, the infamous hoax that fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others. There are two good series of large and medium film negatives, one set of Tristan da Cunha from 1939, the other of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in 1919. The catalogue front cover photograph will be unknown to everyone. It is just one of the thousands of photographs from the archive of Godfrey Dickson Tanner (1876-1964). Divided into 16 lots and mostly neatly presented in albums, the photographs predominantly feature India, plus China, Japan and the Far East, as well as Sussex. Little is known about the life and photographic career of Tanner. He appears to have come from Lewes, Sussex, and was based for a long period at Regent House, Simla, India, possibly working as a stationer. (Perhaps he worked for Thacker, Spink & Co.?). He seems to have been a Captain in the Royal Engineers in World War One, then marrying Rose Bowman in 1919. In later years he lived in Nairobi, Kenya, where he worked as a municipal servant. Tanner travelled widely and had a good eye for photographing indigenous people and scenes, printing meticulously with the gelatin silver bromide process, sometimes sepia-toned. The majority of photographs appear to have been taken in the early decades of the century, and while the albums are well presented, there are no dates and there is no discernible ordering of prints in many of the albums. Tanner’s work may have been published in Amateur Photographer and similar publications but it is startling to realise that his name as a photographer is completely unknown, though that may be because the photographs offered here represent his complete archive. If anyone knows more please do let us know for us to share.Printed catalogues available from the auction offices (£15 post inclusive). Public viewing daily from 2nd October, 9am-6pm and morning of sale from 9am; other times strictly by appointment. For further information and enquiries please contact Chris Albury chris@dominicwinter.co.uk / 01285 860006 Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ www.dominicwinter.co.ukSee More

Dominic Winter’s Photography: The First 150 Years spring auction takes place on Friday 9th March and features 19th and 20th century photography in all its many guises. The highlight of the auction is predicted to be an iconic albumen print portrait of Sir John Herschel by Julia Margaret Cameron (Cox & Ford no. 674), which is not only has excellent tones but comes from the Herschel family by direct descent through Herschel’s daughter Amelia and her husband Sir Thomas Wade. Estimated at £30,000-50,000 it is by far the highest estimated of the five Cameron portraits in the sale and times neatly with the new exhibition, Victorian Giants, opening at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on 1st March. With the same provenance is a rare copy photograph made by John Werge in 1890 from Herschel’s own 1839 photograph of his father’s Forty-Foot Telescope at Slough, the original - now almost completely faded - being the oldest surviving photograph on glass.Other early big-name photographers featured with individual photographs in the sale are Lewis Carroll, Hill & Adamson, Oscar Rejlander, Fox Talbot, Francis Frith, John Dillwyn Llewelyn and Hugh Owen. Also on offer will be a rare group of 12 wax paper negatives, mid 1850s, attributed to Thomas Keith.The negatives are just one of many highlights from the John Hannavy collection to be sold in the same sale. John also contributes to the Victorian photography section with an albumen print of Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Love’ and a collection of 31 salt prints of the Crimea by Roger Fenton.The end of the 400-lot sale will be devoted to John’s extraordinary collection of cased images, ranging from stereo daguerreotypes by Claudet and others through good ambrotypes and other unusual rarities, culminating with the finest private collection of union cases in the UK. Highlight of the 100+ lots in this section will be one of three known whole plate designs, ‘The Landing of Columbus’ (Berg 1-1), in superb condition, it houses a fine hand-coloured ambrotype of a young woman, and is estimated at £1500-2000. This and many of the items in John’s collection were featured in his excellent book Case Histories: The Presentation of the Victorian Photographic Portrait, 1840-1875.The sale has a number of good travel photograph albums including two privately compiled large albums of India photographs by Sache and others, an Imperial Russia archive compiled by a British dental surgeon serving on the Eastern Front, 1916; and Herbert Ponting is represented with a collection of 131 contact prints of Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition 1910-1913, and in an album of 200 of his Japanese photographs, acquired from Ponting’s estate following his death in 1935. On the modern photography front are over 50 lots made up from two interesting collections of Magnum press print photographs (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, etc.), circa 1950; and press/exhibition print photographs of major photographers from the Colin Osman archive, circa 1970s/1980s.Rounding out the sale are plentiful lots of cartes de visite, stereoviews, lantern slides, assorted folders and groups of material themed by subject, to include an interesting, large Dutch archive of 19th and early 20th-century travel and genre subjects. The final 19th-century curiosity is a rare French photographer’s wooden handcart from the 1890s, painted black and emblazoned in gold with the name of the photographers Guilleminot.Printed and online catalogues will be available from 19th February. Public viewing daily from 6th March, 9-6 and morning of sale from 9am; other times strictly by appointment.For further information and enquiries please contact Chris Albury chris@dominicwinter.co.uk / 01285 860006Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQwww.dominicwinter.co.ukSee More